Former President Donald Trump took to social media this weekend to offer leftover campaign funds to help Kamala Harris’ campaign pay off their millions of dollars worth of debt.
“I am very surprised that the Democrats, who fought a hard and valiant fight in the 2020 Presidential Election, raising a record amount of money, didn’t have lots of $’s left over,” Trump wrote in a post on his Truth Social.
Harris’s campaign reportedly spent up to $20 million on swing-state concerts the night before her significant election loss to Trump, and now concerns have arisen about whether campaign staff and vendors will be paid.
Members of the Harris campaign expressed that the concerts drained the campaign’s financial resources, with even one scheduled performance by 90s rock star Alanis Morissette canceled in an attempt to cut costs.
The election-eve events featured artists like Jon Bon Jovi in Detroit, Christina Aguilera in Las Vegas, Katy Perry in Pittsburgh, and Lady Gaga in Philadelphia, with rapper 2 Chainz joining Harris for another concert in Atlanta on November 2, three days before the election.
According to two sources, Stephanie Cutter, a veteran of the Obama campaign, advocated for the concert series as a strategy to encourage lower-turnout voters.
While the artists volunteered their time, the scale of the production required considerable funding and manpower. Cutter reportedly had the support of another Obama campaign alumnus, David Plouffe.
“Now they are being squeezed by vendors and others. Whatever we can do to help them during this difficult period, I would strongly recommend we, as a Party and for the sake of desperately needed UNITY, do. We have a lot of money left over in that our biggest asset in the campaign was “Earned Media,” and that doesn’t cost very much. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!,” Trump continued.
